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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Angeronini » Lytrosis » Lytrosis permagnaria - Hodges#6723 (Lytrosis permagnaria)

Species Lytrosis permagnaria - Hodges#6723

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited
Lytrosis permagnaria 6723 E – Lytrosis permagnaria - Lytrosis permagnaria Iridopsis? - Lytrosis permagnaria - male Lytrosis permagnaria
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Geometroidea (Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths)
Family Geometridae (Geometrid Moths)
Subfamily Ennominae
Tribe Angeronini
Genus Lytrosis
Species permagnaria (Lytrosis permagnaria - Hodges#6723)
Hodges Number
6723
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lytrosis permagnaria (Packard, 1876)
Phylogenetic sequence # 198450
Size
Adults - wingspan of females 75mm (1)
Larvae - mature at 40 - 50mm (diagnostic) (1)
Identification
Adults - males are uniform in gound color with prominent, black PM line on both wings and feathery antennae. Females have a narrower PM line, especially on the hindwings, and other lines are present. Filamentous antennae (1)

Larvae - stick mimics; mostly grey-brown with many thin black lines. See Wagner photo (1)
Range
rarely encountered from scattered locations around central and southeastern US, possibly absent from North Carolina (1)
Habitat
usually low to mid-elevation oak and mixed hardwood forests (1)
Season
adults have a short flight period; mid-May in most locations (1)
Food
reared in captivity on red oak and also accepted hickory (1)
Life Cycle
larvae feed from June until August, enter diapause in the antepenultimate instar, and overwinter. In spring they molt and begin feeding again, pupate in early June. Females can lay over 500 eggs (1)
Remarks
males come to lights from 11:30 pm to 1 am, females also come to lights but less so (1)
See Also
can be separated from all other species in the genus by the upper surface of the wings being a uniform pale brownish gray. In addition, the angle of the t. p. line is about 5 mm. from the outer margin of the forewing; in all the other species, this distance is about 2 mm. [Randy Hardy]. (2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
Works Cited
1.Rare, Declining, and Poorly Known Butterflies and Moths of Forests and Woodlands in the Eastern United States
Dale F. Schweitzer, Marc C. Minno, David L. Wagner. 2011. U.S. Forest Service, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, FHTET-2011-01. .
2.A revision of the moth genus Lytrosis (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)
Frederick H. Rindge. 1971. American Museum Novitates, 2474: 1-21.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Chuck Entz on 11 July, 2007 - 7:23am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 10 July, 2013 - 7:28pm

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